Alexander Skwar wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Walter Dnes wrote: > >> several minutes at "Calculating world dependencies", > > > > You upgraded portage. The einfos said to run 'emerge > > --metadata' first thing. > > I'm also seeing this from time to time - "emerge -Duvat world" > just seems to take forever at the "Calculating world > dependencies" after I ran "eix-sync" which includes "emerge > --sync". And I haven't updated portage. Any ideas?
You're still at portage-2.0.*? The latest versions of those were known to be terribly slow at updating the cache. Sometimes. When there were lots of changes in the KDE stuff. > I don't think it's a missing "emerge --metadata", as the metadata > generation is included when running "emerge --sync" (Updating > Portage cache: 100%), isn't it? Hrrrm. Yes it was a missing "emerge --metadata". You will see when you upgrade. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list